Website links, new publications in geotechnical engineering and engineering geology and Google Earth related information can be found in this section.
A research project sponsored by the SE chapter of ADSC is back on track and preparing for more field tests of rock-socketed drilled shafts in rocks of the Piedmont. Click through to Dan Brown and […]
TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Web-Only Document 177: Evaluation of Bridge Scour Research: Geomorphic Processes and Predictions explores the impact of long-term aggradation and degradation, and lateral river channel migration, on highway structures. […]
Recycled rubber from tires has been used in various civil engineering projects. The California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) promotes these uses which included RAC or rubberized asphaltic concrete as a friction enhancing […]
Up until recently, the biggest steel H-Pile section you could get was an HP14 weighing up to 177 lb/ft. But ENR reports that manufacturers are now rolling steel H-Piles in 16 and 18 inch depths. […]
Google has launched a new beta service called Follow Your World that allows you to be notified by email when they add new imagery to an area or areas you specify. You could use it […]
An August 2010 FHWA Central Federal Lands report on corrosion of hollow bar soil nails has recently been made available on the NCS Consultants, LLC website. The authors of the report are Naresh Samtani and […]
The FHWA Turner-Fairbanks Highway Research Center has issued a document to provide interim guidance on the implementation of Geosynthetic Reinforced Soil or GRS Bridge Systems. From the foreward: Geosynthetic Reinforced Soil (GRS) technology consists of […]
A new book that may be of interest to folks. See the Geoengineer.org link for more info. A personal account of the role played by Rudolph Glossop, one of the founders of geotechnical engineering in […]
‘Dams Sector facilities provide a host of benefits, from flood protection to crop irrigation; however, the potential for their failure also presents a source of great danger with disastrous consequences. To avoid failures, it is […]
TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 676: Intelligent Soil Compaction Systems explores intelligent compaction, a new method of achieving and documenting compaction requirements. Intelligent compaction uses continuous compaction-roller vibration monitoring to assess mechanistic […]
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